Lady in the Water (2006)

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Wikidata Q621529, film, IMDb tt0452637, TMDB 9697: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

In the store as #681, Lady in the Water (2006).

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Signs: 3 lines theme ×2 craft ×1

  1. theme (recurring theme): Lady in the Water → Signs. Shyamalan films all center on men who neglect family for work and on crises of faith; here the man loses his family entirely.
    “all in my trauma films are crisis of faith movies, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:36:26 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Christopher Doyle: 2 lines people ×1 verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Christopher Doyle → Lady in the Water. After calling the party scene illegible and boggling to follow, the speaker jokes that the cinematographer's own habits explain why the film is hard to follow.
    “But in his defense, the reason's so hard to follow is because Christopher Doyle was having sex with a black woman and being arrested while they were.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:32:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: 2 lines industry ×1 lineage ×1

  1. industry (same weekend): Lady in the Water → Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Pirates was number one on Lady in the Water's opening weekend, with Cars in the mix.
    “Number one was still Pirates of the Caribbean.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:43:19 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

The Village: 2 lines craft ×1 career ×1

  1. career (career arc): Lady in the Water → The Village. The Village was the first real backlash, and Lady in the Water is cast as the film that dynamited his career.
    “the village marks something of a turning point because it's when the kind of the bloom fell off the rose”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:38:41 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)

Birdman: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (critic portrayal): Lady in the Water → Birdman. Birdman's film critic is called more sensitive and three-dimensional than Balaban's critic in Lady in the Water.
    “Inaritu's portrayal of a film critic in Birdman is sensitive and three-dimensional compared to Bob Paliban in this, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:48:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Edge of Tomorrow: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → Lady in the Water. The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils.
    “They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Godzilla: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (critic portrayal): Lady in the Water → Godzilla. Ranks directors who put film critics in their movies to shit on them, with Godzilla's Mayor Ebert gag, then Birdman, then Lady in the Water.
    “I go Godzilla, then Birdman, or the unexpected virtue.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:49:36 · Richard Lawson (0.40 sure it was them)

Harry Potter (the films): 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (worldbuilding contrast): Lady in the Water → Harry Potter (the films). Proposes the invented terms would be easier if the story were a known fable, since J.K. Rowling's invented vocabulary was learned by audiences.
    “Like, he was just like, oh, J.K. Rowling did it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:18:00 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Inception: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (film about filmmaking): Lady in the Water → Inception. Griffin reads Lady in the Water as Shyamalan's Inception, with the crew roles standing for the collaborative filmmaking process.
    “I think he confirmed it, that Inception was Christopher Nolan's film about filmmaking.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:47:07 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)

Manchester by the Sea: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (plot parallel): Lady in the Water → Manchester by the Sea. A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot.
    “In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Monster House: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (same weekend): Lady in the Water → Monster House. Monster House opened to 22 million versus Lady's 18 million on the same weekend.
    “That opened to 22 and lady opened to 18 mil.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:43:37 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Scream: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (meta monologue): Lady in the Water → Scream. Balaban's speech about what a PG-13 movie will not show is compared to a Kevin Williamson-style monologue from Scream.
    “Bob Bellman giving a Kevin Williamson style monologue.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:25:04 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Star Wars prequels / The Phantom Menace: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (exposition overload): Lady in the Water → Star Wars prequels / The Phantom Menace. Both have stretches of invented-terminology exposition that never sink in.
    “We talked about there was a phenomenon that would occur in that movie in those movies where like a stretch of dialogue is so much fucking nonsense information.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:38:49 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

The Chronicles of Narnia: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (visual comparison): Lady in the Water → The Chronicles of Narnia. As Story weakens her color drains until she resembles Tilda Swinton in Narnia.
    “By the end, she's Tilda Swinton in Narnia.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:14:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Happening: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (next episode): Lady in the Water → The Happening. The Happening is next, with James Urbaniak as guest; Griffin calls it his least favorite.
    “will be our guest for the happening, which is the one that he special requested as well.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:52:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Lady in the Van: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (title joke): Lady in the Water → The Lady in the Van. Lady in the Van is almost as hard to follow as Lady in the Water.
    “Lady in the van is almost as hard to follow Lady in the water.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:26:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Last Airbender: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career after): Lady in the Water → The Last Airbender. Notes that Shyamalan bounced back after the flop, with The Last Airbender coming.
    “I haven't seen the last Airbender.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:53:00 · Richard Lawson (0.40 sure it was them)

The Last of the Mohicans: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (scene echo): Lady in the Water → The Last of the Mohicans. Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay.
    “It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Lorax: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (plot comparison): Lady in the Water → The Lorax. A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax.
    “She was like, the Lorax.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Poseidon Adventure: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (scene echo): Lady in the Water → The Poseidon Adventure. Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure.
    “And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40 sure it was them)

The Revenant: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (joke comparison): Lady in the Water → The Revenant. Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt.
    “I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Tin Cup: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (pitched remake setting): Lady in the Water → Tin Cup. A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup.
    “So it's tin cup, basically.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Unbreakable: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (backstory echo): Lady in the Water → Unbreakable. Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable.
    “much like the crime and unbreakable.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career arc): Lady in the Water → The Village. The Village was the first real backlash, and Lady in the Water is cast as the film that dynamited his career.
    “the village marks something of a turning point because it's when the kind of the bloom fell off the rose”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:38:41 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career after): Lady in the Water → The Last Airbender. Notes that Shyamalan bounced back after the flop, with The Last Airbender coming.
    “I haven't seen the last Airbender.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:53:00 · Richard Lawson (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (worldbuilding contrast): Lady in the Water → Harry Potter (the films). Proposes the invented terms would be easier if the story were a known fable, since J.K. Rowling's invented vocabulary was learned by audiences.
    “Like, he was just like, oh, J.K. Rowling did it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:18:00 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (4)

  1. craft (structural echo): Lady in the Water → The Village. The cast-intro structure, where each character gets one cartoonish trait up front, works like The Village, except The Village is involving.
    “sort of in the same way that the village works, except the village is involving.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:36:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (visual comparison): Lady in the Water → The Chronicles of Narnia. As Story weakens her color drains until she resembles Tilda Swinton in Narnia.
    “By the end, she's Tilda Swinton in Narnia.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:14:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (creature design): Lady in the Water → Signs. The scrunt is held up as a better-shot, better-designed, better-reflection creature that makes good on the sins of the Signs alien.
    “I think the scrunt, he shoots better, designs better, does the reflection thing better.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:33:16 · Richard Lawson (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → Lady in the Water. The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils.
    “They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (same weekend): Lady in the Water → Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Pirates was number one on Lady in the Water's opening weekend, with Cars in the mix.
    “Number one was still Pirates of the Caribbean.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:43:19 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (same weekend): Lady in the Water → Monster House. Monster House opened to 22 million versus Lady's 18 million on the same weekend.
    “That opened to 22 and lady opened to 18 mil.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:43:37 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (pitched remake setting): Lady in the Water → Tin Cup. A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup.
    “So it's tin cup, basically.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (pitched remake setting): Lady in the Water → Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates.
    “How about on a pirate ship?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (cinematography): Christopher Doyle → Lady in the Water. Doyle shot the film beautifully and makes very few American movies.
    “Beautifully filmed by Christopher Doral.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:50:18 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (8)

  1. theme (plot parallel): Lady in the Water → Manchester by the Sea. A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot.
    “In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (plot comparison): Lady in the Water → The Lorax. A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax.
    “She was like, the Lorax.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (scene echo): Lady in the Water → The Poseidon Adventure. Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure.
    “And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. theme (backstory echo): Lady in the Water → Unbreakable. Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable.
    “much like the crime and unbreakable.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. theme (scene echo): Lady in the Water → The Last of the Mohicans. Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay.
    “It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. theme (joke comparison): Lady in the Water → The Revenant. Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt.
    “I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. theme (ending comparison): Lady in the Water → Signs. Both end abruptly on one image after someone heals a body through prayer or love, with only a token time jump.
    “Because signs does the same thing where it just ends.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:33:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. theme (recurring theme): Lady in the Water → Signs. Shyamalan films all center on men who neglect family for work and on crises of faith; here the man loses his family entirely.
    “all in my trauma films are crisis of faith movies, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:36:26 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

unmapped (7)

  1. unmapped (exposition overload): Lady in the Water → Star Wars prequels / The Phantom Menace. Both have stretches of invented-terminology exposition that never sink in.
    “We talked about there was a phenomenon that would occur in that movie in those movies where like a stretch of dialogue is so much fucking nonsense information.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:38:49 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (critic portrayal): Lady in the Water → Birdman. Birdman's film critic is called more sensitive and three-dimensional than Balaban's critic in Lady in the Water.
    “Inaritu's portrayal of a film critic in Birdman is sensitive and three-dimensional compared to Bob Paliban in this, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:48:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (critic portrayal): Lady in the Water → Godzilla. Ranks directors who put film critics in their movies to shit on them, with Godzilla's Mayor Ebert gag, then Birdman, then Lady in the Water.
    “I go Godzilla, then Birdman, or the unexpected virtue.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:49:36 · Richard Lawson (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (meta monologue): Lady in the Water → Scream. Balaban's speech about what a PG-13 movie will not show is compared to a Kevin Williamson-style monologue from Scream.
    “Bob Bellman giving a Kevin Williamson style monologue.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:25:04 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (title joke): Lady in the Water → The Lady in the Van. Lady in the Van is almost as hard to follow as Lady in the Water.
    “Lady in the van is almost as hard to follow Lady in the water.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:26:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (film about filmmaking): Lady in the Water → Inception. Griffin reads Lady in the Water as Shyamalan's Inception, with the crew roles standing for the collaborative filmmaking process.
    “I think he confirmed it, that Inception was Christopher Nolan's film about filmmaking.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:47:07 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (next episode): Lady in the Water → The Happening. The Happening is next, with James Urbaniak as guest; Griffin calls it his least favorite.
    “will be our guest for the happening, which is the one that he special requested as well.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:52:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Christopher Doyle → Lady in the Water. After calling the party scene illegible and boggling to follow, the speaker jokes that the cinematographer's own habits explain why the film is hard to follow.
    “But in his defense, the reason's so hard to follow is because Christopher Doyle was having sex with a black woman and being arrested while they were.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:32:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Lady in the Water: Other kids at Griffin's NYU summer program saw it and came back to the cafeteria yelling snarf, snarf, snarf, mocking the film.
    “At the cafeteria, they were going snarf, snarf, snarf, snarf.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:20:20 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Lady in the Water: Shyamalan demanded the set be within 45 minutes of his Pennsylvania home and timed the trip at 43 minutes; the whole apartment complex and pool were built for the film at a Levittown warehouse site.
    “Shamalan demanded that the set be within 45 minutes of his Pennsylvania home.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:45:24 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Lady in the Water: An IMDb trivia fact claims 9 across could not touch 27 down in the crossword Mr. Dury does, since it would need to be 19 letters long.
    “It would have to be at least 19 layers long to do so.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:46:53 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Lady in the Water: Shyamalan's wish list for supporting roles reportedly included Pacino, De Niro, Gene Wilder, Sidney Poitier, Vince Vaughn, Alec Baldwin and more, all men.
    “Gene Wilder.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:00:10 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Lady in the Water: Cleveland sees a book called The Cookbook, panics that it is a cookbook, and the misdirect resolves 85 seconds later.
    “That happens 85 seconds after the idea was set up.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:12:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Lady in the Water: Opened to 18 million, number three behind Pirates of the Caribbean and Monster House, and finished with 42 million domestic, 72 worldwide.
    “It ended up with a grand total of $42 million, 72 worldwide.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:43:40 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.